Notices by Soatok Dreamseeker (soatok@furry.engineer)

I mentioned the sextortion cult within the furry fandom (known as Furry Valley) before.

https://soatok.blog/2021/01/14/welcome-to-the-furry-fandom/

See also: https://dogpatch.press/2025/02/21/freedom-fandom-fight-abuse/#:~:text=New%20forms%20of%20organized%20abuse

What you may not know is that they constantly try to suck up new users through deception. To that end, they secretly run a lot of NSFW furry groups.

They're currently doing this on BlueSky. In response to news coverage of furries that helped identify animal abusers in the fandom, they created this sock-puppet to sponge off the search engine interest:

Show me something cute.

Especially if it's furry art, fursuits, or related cuteness.

(NSFW is fine.)

@sarahjamielewis Hey @evan any ideas?

Hot take: ISO standards do not meaningfully matter to me, because an extremely impoverished, unbanked person cannot freely access their contents from a smartphone or library computer.

Therefore, I go out of my way to avoid referring to them or relying on them in anyway.

This isn't a queer polyamorous relationship, it's a Directed Acyclic Graph.

...of who's fucking who. It's called the FAG DAG.

This Pride Month, remember that if you see civil disobedience from a queer person: No you didn't.

https://old.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmile/comments/1kw821x/kindness_can_be_shown_in_many_ways/muh6pfn/?context=2

I left this comment on a popular Reddit thread, but thought folks here might also find it relatable.

The first time I flew first class (which was due to the kindness of another technologist who wanted to help me land a job by flying me to DEFCON), the way the other passengers treated the flight attendants disgusted me so much that I felt guilty sharing space with them. I tried to be kind and respectful in spite of the jerks, but it never sat right with me.

A few months later, another friend pointed out to me, if I hadn't been there, they would have had to deal with yet another rude, dehumanizing customer. It helps a bit.

"It costs nothing to be kind" misses the point, I think.

"Being unkind makes everyone poorer" is closer to the truth.

@pft I'm sure they do, but it doesn't come up much in my specialization.

@GossiTheDog @SwiftOnSecurity do either of you know better?

Years of being around folks in open relationships has rendered me immune to like 99% of drama.

"What would you do if you had a boyfriend and caught him in bed with another man?" -> "idk, put on a pot of coffee?"

@mkj @AliCatAD I should add some JavaScript that includes that if the document.referrer includes ycombinator.com in the string

@phryk This is always the funniest and dumbest cycle:

1. I write something on my furry blog.
2. Someone else submits it to Hacker news.
3. Someone complains about the furry art on my furry blog.

Oops.

Hacker News and its vaunted "meritocracy", folks:

(Before anyone complains about the goatse with incorrect numbers of fingers: The other obvious parody of OpenAI's logo is a hate symbol and I didn't want to go with that.)

Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI

It's becoming increasingly apparent that one of the reasons why tech companies are so enthusiastic about shoving AI into every product and service is that they fundamentally do not understand why people dislike AI. I will elaborate. I was recently made aware of the Jetbrains developer ecosystem survey, which included a lot of questions about AI. After I answered some of them negatively (and possibly…

http://soatok.blog/2025/05/04/tech-companies-apparently-do-not-understand-why-we-dislike-ai/

It would be a real shame if thousands of people submitted totally legitimate incidents concerning Texas public schools for these Republican losers to sift through.

https://defendinged.org/join-the-movement/report-an-incident/

Context: https://ghostarchive.org/archive/XLPho || https://archive.ph/pIZy5

Whatever you do, do not crapflood them, troll them, or satirize them.

Choose cryptography, where you can have to explain tautology like "the empty string is the prefix to every string" to computer science majors that don't understand domain separation.

@dascandy If I were a betting dhole, I'd put my money on "law enforcement"

@dascandy Another prospect that was raised: "developed by AI"

None of this is particularly interesting. Lots of people ship god awful cryptography.

The really interesting thing is how they try to market this pile of shit.